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Give me one reason i'm wrong
Post your favorite
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>>26883701
Because water-types are awesome.
>>26883720
My man!
To be honest, I don't like Feraligatr that much. His sprites/models look weird to me, and I was disappointed with my Totodile in gen 2.
I love his preevos' designs, though.
>>26883701
The pose and lighting on that picture is 10/10
>>26883701
I agree with you OP, totodile was my first starter as I received Crystal as my first pokemon game, so it has a special place in my heart.
>>26883720
Indeed they are.
All water all the time
>>26883701
Because You Can't Stopplio the Popplio
The only fire/fight that made sense
Depends on your criteria for best. Firechicken, for example, might be considered the best starter because it's the only one good enough to get sent to ubers.
Mudkip or Greninja? Hmm...
Torterra will always be my favorite
This motherfucker. Also, Swampert is the worst starter.
>>26883701
I can't.
Gatr is the best.
>>26883701
Bretty gud my dude
>>26886901
>Swampert is the worst
>you're motherfucker is Emboar
>>26884943
This
>>26883701
But Feraligtr suffers from the same problem that its fellow starters do - its too bland. It's stats are underwhelming, it's movepool is shallow, and its mono type. Sheer Force is great, but it's stats are too low for it to be much.
>>26887167
It isn't bland, nice opinion though.
In its debut, Feraligatr severely suffered from being a physically-oriented pure Water type. It had to rely on Normal type moves and Earthquake to use its best stat, and wasn't able to use Water or Ice nearly to the level of other Water-types. Further, Dark was also considered special, so it couldn't even use Bite effectively except as coverage.
It got better after the physical/special split, but was still inferior to most physical Water-types. Swampert was much better in that regard.
Eventually, once its hidden ability was released, it finally was able to shine to a degree after spending so long as a mediocre Pokemon.
Feraligatr is my favorite Gen 2 starter and one of my top 5 starters, these are just reasons to the contrary.
>>26887188
>It isn't bland
Just like his belief that it is, yours that it isn't is equally subjective.
It's just a big blue alligator. That's fairly bland in light of the vast majority of Pokemon. Certainly the blandest Water starter.
>>26887149
>defending Swampert
>>26887237
Emboar is pretty terrible. Any visual complaints you could lob at Swampert, Emboar has them worse.
There's a reason he got two megas.
>water type
>high attack instead of high sp. attack
>pretty meh stats overal
It's shit.
>>26887277
Is it because he's overrated and probably a fanservice to the bratty kantofags ?
>>26887351
No it's because he's popular and recognizable even to people who don't play Pokemon.
>>26887351
It's becaused he is a fucking fire dragon and one of the most famous Pokémon in the world.
>>26887271
That's completely untrue. There is nothing redeemable about Swampert, and its mega just made it worse.
>>26887443
I honestly don't understand how you could like Emboar's design but dislike Mega Swampert's.
Mega Swampert is bulky done right, and while I'm a fan of Emboar personally, he does look a bit top heavy and immobile.
>>26883701
Power creep happens
>>26887443
Either start giving actual criticisms or stop shitposting.
>>26883701
Your lighting of your picture threw me off for a second
It looked like Feraligatr was sitting down on it's legs with it's ass sticking out look back at you
>>26886797
I have a soft spot for torterra
He kicked ass and was a tank that dealt heavy damage
>tfw learning Wood Hammer for the first time
>>26887468
Swampert as a big bara fuck just doesn't work at all. It looks ridiculous, like they did it for a joke.
>>26887167
For a early gen starter, UU is still great
Not a lot of starters without Mega's can stay on top
>bland
The fact that he's an Aligatot is honestly great design, better than a fire rat, and this is coming from the guy who loves Feraligatr and Typhlosion as my top 2
>>26887650
Hey man you're entitled to your opinion, I'm just surprised you like Emboar and not Mega Swampert when they have a similar premise in their design.
Just big ass bulky tank mons.
>>26887682
If it makes you feel any better, I don't mind regular Swampert. But its mega is of course technically the same Pokemon and it makes it go down several tiers for me. I usually like fat, bulky mons but with Swampert it just doesn't work.
>>26887391
>>26887379
shut it kantofags
>>26887351
is speaking the truth
>>26888416
Solid argument homie.
>>26887379
>>26887391
How's that charizard dick taste?
